Regina's 2024 construction employment did not track the same direction as Saskatoon's, and this page states the real, city-level split rather than a smoothed provincial average. What follows is what actually moved in Regina, what a public tender in the city requires, and the one safety threshold that arrives sooner here than almost anywhere else in Canada.
Market signals
Saskatchewan's overall 2024 construction employment was reported as essentially flat, and BuildForce Canada's 2024 construction sector review explains why: Regina's employment fell that year while Saskatoon's grew, and the two moves largely cancelled out at the provincial level. Neither city's percentage is published individually — only the direction of each and the net provincial result. A contractor sizing Regina specifically should treat the flat provincial figure as two real, opposite local trends rather than as evidence that nothing changed in the city itself. See the Saskatchewan page for the province's own headline safety and market figures.
Separately from the employment picture, BuildForce Canada, published 24 March 2026 records that Saskatchewan has seen “notable gains in permit values for commercial and institutional building types” over the 12 months ending January 2026 — the same release that shows apartment-building housing starts up more than 400% in February 2026 against February 2025. Both figures are provincial, not city-specific; no Regina-only permit-value figure could be sourced this session. Regina's public-sector project base — schools, health facilities, government buildings — sits inside that provincial trend rather than as a separately published number.
A firm bidding public work in Regina will most often meet it through CanadaBuys' tender-opportunities page, which lists federal opportunities filterable by category including construction. Below the Government Contracts Regulations s. 6 ceilings — $25,000 for goods, $40,000 for most other contracts, $100,000 for construction-related architectural or engineering services — a contracting authority may sole-source rather than competitively bid. Above those figures a project generally goes to competitive tender. Provincial and municipal tenders in Saskatchewan run through their own separate portals, which this page has not sourced.
Every other Canadian jurisdiction sets its mandatory joint health and safety committee trigger at 20 or more workers. Saskatchewan sets it at 10, per CCOHS's jurisdictional committee table — a committee of at least 2 members and not more than 12, with at least half representing workers. A Regina contractor scaling a crew past 10 workers on a single site crosses into formal committee territory roughly twice as fast as a comparably sized crew in Ontario, Alberta or BC. See the Saskatchewan safety page for the full jurisdictional comparison.
No single figure for Regina alone is published. BuildForce Canada's 2024 construction sector review states that Regina's employment declined in 2024 while Saskatoon's grew, offsetting each other at the provincial level, but gives no city-specific percentage for either.
10 or more workers, per Saskatchewan's own threshold in CCOHS's jurisdictional committee table — the lowest trigger in the country. Every other province and territory sets it at 20.
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